Dread: “Compared to how an offlaner can be bullied, mid is a super-chill role”

Streamer Andrey 'Dread' Golubev, in a commentary for CyberMeta, explained why he changed his playing role, assessed the internal rating of players on BetBoom Streamers Battle and shared his expectations from the next tournament in the series.

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As for me, mid is a position that is very difficult to lose too much. Compared to how an offlaner can be bullied, mid is a super chill role. Tuning for pos. I have more 3, so I’m just glad to switch to 3. In general, it really doesn’t matter to me what position I play. Mid is a freebie, I’ve played enough offlane, 4 and 5 – I’ve been playing on them for half my cyber-athletic life. But I won’t sit on carry, I won’t take out micro.

The more people evaluate players, the more objective the evaluation will be. This time the rating is compiled even more accurately than before. The only negative is that the participants give their own ratings - this is biased, because they are interested parties. The rating should be set by an independent board of X people, and it is desirable that all these people should also be independent of each other. But the current changes will make the tournament more balanced, that's for sure. However, I have no doubt that especially gifted captains will also be able to deceive the system.

We played a couple of games and talked a little. Despite the fact that we lost 2/2 games against the VooDooSh team, it seemed to me that we had good chances. Good communication in the team, there is a carry who can pick up the ball. In general, in terms of mmram and rating, the composition is competitive. True, ybicanoobov himself was not there, but I hope things will only get better with him!

At BETBOOM Streamers Battle Dota 14, Dread will play in 3rd position in the same team with eyesight, ybicanoobov, EARTHQ and by_Owl.